Actor Tony Randall of 'Odd Couple' Fame Dies has the news of the passing of
the brilliant comic actor. The Odd Couple is one of my favorite sitcoms
of all time, and in my opinion, the team of Randall and Klugman (it's hard to
believe that Jack has outlived Tony, as he has been the one with all the highly
publicized health issues over the years) are one of the great TV comedy duos
ever, right up there with Gleason & Carney and Burns & Allen. With every recent
TV show that lasted more than a season being immortalized with boxed DVD sets, I
would love to own a set with the uncut original Odd Couple... "I don't like
pits, pits, pits, in my juice, juice, juice!"

I remember when my old undergraduate supervisor breathed in hydrogen cyanide gas. That was an 'oh shit' moment to be sure. Hospital trip and everything. His own fault, he was being a sloppy Chemist.

I was always a little nervous working in the same fume cupboard with him after that!

The problem seemed increased as only a few people dealt with cyanide gas in our University. Those that did went on a training course on how to deal with someone who had been exposed to cyanide gas, but the thing is, in all probability, the person using it was the one most likely to breath it in. So you're going to be lying on your back shitting yourself, trying to tell people the emergency procedures as you are convulsing on the floor, near to passing out. Great!